Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-20
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

THE prohibitionists of New York are
talking of erecting large hall at cost
OF 100000.
SYLvANIUs CoBB, Jr., wrote one hundred
and eight long stories that were pub
lished in the New York Ledger.
COLONEL D. R. ANTHONY has sold the
Leavenworth Times to a New England
Syndicate for 100000.
MORE than $3O,O00,00o in mutilated
nstes are redeemed each year at the Sub
Treasury.
JESSE GRANT is likely to become the
richest member of his family through his
interests in the Lake Superior iroa mines.
He may yet become an iron king.
A MGTEoRIC stone weighing 4215 pounds,
and resembling iron in appearance, has
been found on Honey creek. near Tifjn,
Ohio.
The value of permanent school proper
ty in Dakota is not far from s3,ooU,oUU.
It has increased from less than $4,000 in
1877.
The British steamship, Hugh Lenden,
with 1000 bales of cotton on board for
Liverpool, was burned at Savanna, Ca.
Oct. II.
Robert GARRETT has resigned the
Presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and the Board of Directors has
accepted the resignation.
THE Niobrar Lard and Cattle Com
pany, owning herds in the far west, and
having it's headquarters at st. Louis, has
failed. Liabilities, $350O00; assets, $780,
900.
a CHERRY TREE of the white oxheart
variety on the premises of John Capara,
of Oroville, CAL, bore this season $500
pounds of fruit. It is eighteen years old,
is sixty feet high and is six feet in cir
cumference.
THE art of paper making has reached
point where growing tree may be cut
down, made into paper, and turned out
as newspaper, all within thirty-six hours
The first act of the American Bankers
Association, in session at Pittsburgh was
the adoption of a resolution recommend
ing such an extradition treaty between
this country and Great Britain as would
cover the cases of defaulters and embez-
zlers.
MAYOR ROCHE has given orders to the
police to suppress the crazy harangues
of George Francis Train, who, being
either insane or morbidly anxious for
notoriety, advertises meetings of SYM
patty in behalf OF anarchy and anar-
chism.
A SILVER dollar split in two, hollowes
out, and filled with compound OF glass
and anthony, which gives it the correct
ringing sound, is the latest counterfeltsto
be put in circulation in New York city.
TWENTY natives of the FIowery king
dom are in jail at Tacoma, Washington
territory, charged with having struggled
themselves into the United States from
British Columbia.
UNITED STATES SENATOR AND Mrs.
HEARST have just given handsome sum
to Hebrew congregation IN San Fran
cisco toward the erection of a new syna-
golg f;Il3 ,-;,,.a-. ,zz,---o7- --o3-;- 49,
bears, mountain lions, wolves and coyotes
is quite an expensive item in the yearly
budget of Montana. From January to
August, 1887, that territory paid IN boun-
ties $96,O25.10
JESSE JAMES, of ArmouFdale, a cousin
of Frank James, the outlaw, has gone to
Dallas, Tex, where is said to be dying.
Frank James went to Fallae about six
months ago.
EIGHT new cases of fever have broken
out at Tampa, Florida. There is urgent
need of money and nurses, as the town
treasury is empty and the inhabitants
panic stricken.
MISS ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, sister
of President Cleveland, arrived in New
York last week and began her new duties
Of iy,
young ladies' boarding school near Cen
trail Park.
In riot between several thousand Or
augemen and Catholics at Toronto, On
tario, on the occasion of a banquet to
Cardinal Tasohereau, maLy persons were
injured, but the police finally dispersed
the attacking mob Of Orangemen.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB Aston is dangerously
i'll at Newport. Although fabulously
rich she is plain woman in her tastes,
and devotes much of her time and wealth
to works of charity. Her death would be
calamity to many poor people of New
York.
THE New York health authorities re-
port that the cholera infection on the
italian steamship in the lower bay has
been destroyed, and that there is no
cause for any further apprehension.
A TERRITORIAL convention of Utah, in
session at Salt Lake City, has framed a
constitution and a memorial to Congress
asking to be admitted into the Union as
State. The convention is composed of
Mormons.
The two commissioners appointed by
the President to meet similar represent
atives of the British Government for the
negotiation of new fisheries treaty, are
now in conference with the Secretary of
State at Washington.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.